Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-01-14

had then lin january In his lofts, for
the use OF his table till the next vintage,
q quantity of gra pes sufficient to make q
hundred gallons of wine, A large basket
OF them was sent to my lodgings, and [
found them as delicious and fresh as if
just taken from the vine."
In Judges We read And the vine said
unto them. Should / leave my VINE
which cheereth God and man, and 90 to
be promoted over the trees" (Judges
IL. 13). We sometimes hear this text
quoted in favor of alcoholic wine, as If
nothing a cheer or exhilarate upless it
possess Intoxicating properties. We
know food cheers the hungry, and water
cheers the thirsty, but we have an illus
trstion of the cheering effect of u%uintox-
Icating wine, given by Prof. Moses Ste
wart: The first Chief-Justioe Of the
United States Supreme Court was sent
as ambassador of France ia company
with judge Swift. They were ship
wrecked on the coast of Spain. On their
way to Paris, among the mountains O
spain, o Wine was urged upon them
which would not ,ntoxicate. The Judge
assured Prof. Stewart that he never
tasted anything which would bear CON-
parison with the exquisite flavor and re-
freshing effects of this wine. 1t was a
precious balm to the ambassador, who
had become fearfully exhausted by yea
sickness. The Judge expressed his con.
fdert belief that 9 gallon OF 1t, if q man
could swallow so much, would not effect
his head in the least degree. 1t wat per-
haps OF such Inc as this that We read in
Timothy: Use. a little wine for thy
stomach's sake and thiEs other ipfirmi-
ties" II Tim, v. 3D. DR.. Kerr say O
bottle OF wine taken from his cellar,
where it lad been for fonr years, was
analysed, and found TO be absolutely
free from alcohol. He precribes 1t large
~ in the treatment of such diseases as
fever, consumption and dyspepsia.
Let those who are interested in this
subject give due weight to the testimony
of Delavan, who spent the best years of
his life and thousands of dollars in this
cause; of DR.. Lees, who was a thorough
master of the language in which the
Bible was written; of Moses Stewart,
who was for many years president of
Andoyer Theological Seminary. These
were not ignorant and uniformed men.
To these add the writer's of our own day,
DIR. Kerr, Rev. DIR. Patton, Rev. VIM.
Thayer and many others
From such sources We learn that
there are thirteen different words in the
Hebrew and Greek that, translated into
our Language, are rendered "wine." This
has destroyed the distinction originally
made by the writer's between the differ
emit preparations of the grape. IL is as
il some Que o thousand years hence
should translate our language into
another, and call cider, apple butter,
cane Juice, molasses, wine, vinegar, jelly,
beer and whisky, and all sorts OF grapes,
~raisins, and fruit syrups by one name,
and teach that they all produce the same
effect. In the texts used in this reading
we have the words gavin, tirosh, shsman-
i'm, shemarim and eshesha, all called
wine" This consideration makes it
clear to our mind how, after being for
hidden in one passage to look upon the
wine, 1t can be said in another, sand
the floors shall be full Of wheat, and the
fats shall overflow with wine and oil"
t1ee!i. az aaiaa veE Homo.
the Lord with thy substance, so shall
thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy
presses shall burst out with new vine"
prov. iii. 9 10y. Aud when the Jews re-
turned with rejoicing to JUDGE, we are
told "they gathered wine and summer
fruits very much" Ger. XII. 12). Can we
think hat He who so wildly describes
the woes that shall come upon those
who tarry long at the wine, would say
Of the same beverage, II have drunk
my vine with my milk; eat, o friends
drink, yea, drink ab~undantly"s (Oant. v
n. What would be the result Of drink
ing abundan.ly OF fermentad wine?.
We must keep in mind that fermented
drink was the only intoxioant known lin
those times(aside from SIMPLIFYING
drugs), as the art OF distlliing, by which
whlskey and other strong drinks are
produced, was not discovered till about
nine hundred years after the Bible was
written; 80 that the woes proceeding
from drink at that time were caused by
fermented wine. Can we think it was
such wine that David mentions, when
rejoicing over the restoration Of the
Ark, HE dealt to every one OF Israel,
both man and woman, to every one q
loaf of bread, o good piece OF flesh, and.
a hagon of wine"?( Chron. xvi.3). Can we
fancy o minister now, when dedicating
his church, to add the enjoyment of his
congregation, presenting each individual
with 8 bottle of Intoxicating wine? We
can not suppose that the wlne THUS pres
ented by the king was such as wonld
cause redness of eyes and wounds with
out cause. 1t is more in harmony with
the spirit OF the occasion : suppose
that it was some OF those delicious and
and harmless preparations above mem
toned, for we should see no lnconsisten-
cy In q minister, on such an occasion of
rejoicing, presenting his people with the
rich, ripe grapes, and saying, "Tkss
saith the Lord, as the new wine is found
in the ~cluster, and one saith destroy it
not. for Q blessing is IN it" lisa. lxvs 81.
Aud 30 we believe a blessing is in that
for which we read in Isaiah: "Ho
every one that thlrsteth, come ye to the
waters, and he that hath no money,
come ye, buy and eat. ye come buy
wine and milk without money, and
without price. Eat ye that which is
good, and let your soul delight itself in
fairness" (Iss. lv. 1, y; for it is %inconsis-
tent with his goodness to suppose that
God would offer to His people as q
blessing, eyen symbolically, that which
.'beith like q serpent and .stingeth like
an adder" prov. xiii. 32).
D Compare the invitation given by
Wisdom: "Come, eat of my bread, and
drink of the wine which l have mingled"
(Pfov. tx. 81, With "Whoso is deceived
thereby is not wissp prov. X. ~. Can
Ne ~ Christian temperance workers for
one moment admit that the Bible Sane
lions the use OF Intoxicating vine?
Mark the effect that such an admission
he's on the heather to whom we send
the Bible as the Word of God, and the
right rule of life. A lady missionary